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Diversity Diary
Diversity in production home building. Up until now, it's meant little more than having both flat- and Phillips-head screws in a tool box. Amid slurs, biases, and off-color humor that seemed to be part of the on- and off-site fabric of home building culture, managing diversity existed as a topic regarded as, at best, nonessential to the rough-and-tumble business of residential construction. As momentum in the new-home market appears to have stalled, high volume builders still very much need to attract, deploy, and retain the best talent, irrespective of race, gender, age, or creed. BIG BUILDER visited John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods during a recent intensive two-day management training program to get a first-hand glimpse at what the Atlanta-based builder is beginning to do to ensure that differences are leveraged for the success and survival of the company.
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